RESEARCH

Professor Case's research has been in the areas of real estate, housing, and public finance. He is author or co-author of five books including Principles of Economics, Economics and Tax Policy and Property Taxation: The Need for Reform and has published numerous articles in professional journals. Principles of Economics, a basic text coauthored with Ray C. Fair and Sharon Oster, is in its ninth edition and has been adopted at more than 500 colleges and universities.

For a complete list of Professor Case's publications, please see below.

Housing Markets and the Economy is based on a 2007 conference to honor the work of Karl “Chip” Case and his scientific contributions to the economics of housing and public policy. The chapters analyze risk in the housing market, the regulation of housing markets by government, and other issues in U.S. housing policy. Chapters investigate derivative markets; the role that home equity insurance can play in reducing risk; the role that the regulation of government-sponsored enterprises has played in extending credit to home purchasers in low-income neighborhoods; and the growth in the market for subprime mortgages. The impact of local zoning regulations on housing prices and new construction is also considered. Edward Glaeser highlights much of Professor Case's seminal research in this volume which has been called "a must read during a time of restructuring our nation’s system of housing finance."

"State Tax Policy and the Telecommunications Industry," The Telecommunications Revolution: Challenge for State Policymakers, J. Chaisson and B. Dyer (Eds.), Council of State Policy and Planning Agencies, (1987); revised version published (1993).

"Equal Access Goods and Subsidy-Taxes in the U.S. System of Redistribution" (with Michael S. McPerson), Wellesley College Working Paper #90, (December 1984).

"Taxes and Business Location: A Simulation of the Effects of State and Local Taxes on the Profits of Manufacturing Firms in New York and Competing Jurisdictions and a Review of the Research on the Impact of Taxes on Business Location Decisions" (with Leslie Papke and Susan Koenigsberg), Report for the Legislative Tax Study Commission of the State of New York, (August 1983).

"Homeownership and Housing Affordability in the United States 1963-1983" (with H. James Brown), Monograph for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard University, 1st edition of The State of the Nation’s Housing, (July 1983).

"Growth, Technology and the Role of Government," Wellesley College Working Paper #68, (June 1983).

"Land Prices, Housing Prices and Housing Production: Does the Market Work or Doesn’t It?," Monograph for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard University, (March 1982).

"Housing Market Modeling to Assist in Planning for Residential Photovoltaic Systems: A Review and an Alternative Approach" (with Donald Walls and David Kresge), Working Paper for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard University, (July 1981).